THE RING, THE TURF, AND PARLIAMENT 



to St. Giles, thought that he was entitled to a 

 moiety of the receipts. To this, however, Ridsdale 

 would not agree, and the coalition was dissolved 

 on the following Monday. 



At Doncaster, Gully, who had bought Margrave 

 after winning the Criterion, and had sent him to 

 Whitehall to be trained by Scott, carried off the 

 St. Leger with that horse. It was, in contrast 

 to the Derby, a very slow-run race. Robinson 

 caught his field opposite the stands and won by 

 three-quarters of a length. 



There were further racing triumphs in store for 

 Gully. Fourteen years later he had the supreme 

 satisfaction of winning the Derby with Pyrrhus I. 

 The colt had been purchased as a yearling at Don- 

 caster by John Day, and subsequently was acquired 

 by Gully. The chestnut son of Epirus won the 

 race by a neck, just beating Sir Tatton Sykes, 

 who was left sixty yards at the post. In the same 

 week Gully supplemented this victory by winning 

 the Oaks with Mendicant, a mare of the highest 

 class and of exquisite quality. Not since 1801, 

 when Sir Charles Banbury carried off the Derby 

 and the Oaks with his famous mare Eleanor, 

 had both races fallen to the same owner in the 

 same year. Gully won but little over the success 

 of Mendicant, as Lord George Bentinck had fore- 

 stalled him in the market. At Ascot he sold the 

 mare for £4,000 to Sir Joseph Hawley, who was 

 thought to have made a bad bargain when she 

 was beaten in the Cup ; but she bred him Beadsman, 

 who won the Derby in 1858 and brought him a 

 large fortune over the race. Eight years later 

 Gully again won the Derby. On his own judgment 



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